Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 90 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 -37 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,245 1,938 2,599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.37% 2.89% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 3.47% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 799 1,074 2,045
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £94,375 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,250 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +6.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 1,161 £75,000 +7.14% 1,227
London +11 683 £85,000 - 662
UK excluding London -68 520 £70,000 +7.69% 650
Work from Home -15 505 £72,500 +7.41% 835
North of England -26 197 £70,000 +14.37% 200
North West -7 124 £70,000 +14.37% 133
South East -77 115 £70,000 +3.70% 166
Midlands +19 73 £71,250 +9.62% 82
Yorkshire -28 60 £75,000 +22.54% 45
South West -46 51 £60,000 -4.00% 84
Scotland -46 45 £64,500 -0.77% 44
West Midlands +33 43 £70,000 +7.69% 49
East of England -15 36 £67,000 +3.08% 43
East Midlands +9 28 £76,000 +16.92% 32
North East -11 13 £52,600 -4.36% 22
Wales -5 6 £52,750 -4.09% 18
Northern Ireland -17 1 - - 17

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.33%) Confluence
3 27 (2.17%) Apache
4 26 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.04%) CMS
7 12 (0.96%) Appian
7 12 (0.96%) JBoss
8 6 (0.48%) nginx
8 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 15 (1.20%) Maya
2 8 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.64%) SAP FS
3 7 (0.56%) Endur
3 7 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.32%) Shopify
5 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.080%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.080%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.080%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 673 (54.06%) AWS
2 584 (46.91%) Azure
3 208 (16.71%) GCP
4 177 (14.22%) Serverless
5 146 (11.73%) SaaS
6 132 (10.60%) GitHub
7 119 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
9 76 (6.10%) Amazon S3
10 67 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (4.18%) PaaS
15 45 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
16 41 (3.29%) Power Platform
17 32 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (2.49%) IaaS
18 31 (2.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.88%) Network Security
2 9 (0.72%) HTTP
3 8 (0.64%) Firewall
4 7 (0.56%) AMQP
5 5 (0.40%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) Broadband
6 3 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.16%) DNS
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) Multicast
7 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.080%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.080%) MQTT
8 1 (0.080%) SNMP
8 1 (0.080%) SSL
8 1 (0.080%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (14.30%) NoSQL
2 165 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (12.37%) MongoDB
4 133 (10.68%) SQL Server
5 92 (7.39%) Relational Database
6 62 (4.98%) DynamoDB
7 60 (4.82%) MySQL
8 51 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (2.81%) Redis
11 34 (2.73%) Big Data
12 33 (2.65%) RDBMS
13 25 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (1.45%) Power BI
16 16 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
18 12 (0.96%) Data Lake
19 11 (0.88%) Tableau
20 8 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 171 (13.73%) Git
2 120 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.66%) JUnit
4 56 (4.50%) JIRA
5 50 (4.02%) GitLab
6 46 (3.69%) Selenium
7 40 (3.21%) Mockito
8 33 (2.65%) JMeter
9 32 (2.57%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.77%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.69%) Maven
12 16 (1.29%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.96%) Snyk
14 12 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.88%) git-flow
15 11 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.88%) Postman
15 11 (0.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 406 (32.61%) Finance
2 341 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 199 (15.98%) Law
4 184 (14.78%) Banking
5 141 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 101 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 80 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 64 (5.14%) Marketing
9 61 (4.90%) Retail
10 51 (4.10%) Financial Institution
11 36 (2.89%) Games
12 31 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.41%) Billing
14 28 (2.25%) Back Office
15 25 (2.01%) Dutch Language
15 25 (2.01%) French Language
15 25 (2.01%) Legal
16 24 (1.93%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.85%) Front Office
18 18 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 425 (34.14%) Developer
2 282 (22.65%) Software Engineer
3 262 (21.04%) Senior
4 225 (18.07%) Architect
4 225 (18.07%) Lead
5 115 (9.24%) Java Developer
6 111 (8.92%) Solutions Architect
7 108 (8.67%) .NET Developer
8 106 (8.51%) Java Engineer
9 82 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 82 (6.59%) Senior Developer
10 74 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 73 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 70 (5.62%) Lead Developer
13 55 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 53 (4.26%) Software Developer
15 45 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 40 (3.21%) C# Developer
16 40 (3.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 40 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (26.18%) .NET
2 277 (22.25%) RESTful
3 249 (20.00%) Spring
4 245 (19.68%) React
5 239 (19.20%) Kafka
6 208 (16.71%) Spring Boot
7 206 (16.55%) REST
8 144 (11.57%) AngularJS
9 133 (10.68%) .NET Core
10 123 (9.88%) Node.js
11 114 (9.16%) HTML
12 81 (6.51%) .NET Framework
13 80 (6.43%) Web Services
14 79 (6.35%) CSS
15 77 (6.18%) ASP.NET
16 72 (5.78%) Hibernate
17 70 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
18 67 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
19 65 (5.22%) Entity Framework
20 55 (4.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 370 (29.72%) Cloud Native
2 193 (15.50%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (8.27%) Product Ownership
4 97 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 42 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (3.37%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.81%) Mobile App
8 35 (2.81%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.73%) Distributed Architecture
10 33 (2.65%) Onboarding
11 31 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (2.25%) Management Information System
13 27 (2.17%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.93%) AI Agents
15 22 (1.77%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.53%) Client/Server
17 17 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
18 16 (1.29%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.82%) Linux
2 32 (2.57%) Windows
3 15 (1.20%) Android
4 9 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Debian
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.080%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (51.89%) Agile
2 591 (47.47%) CI/CD
3 499 (40.08%) DevOps
4 449 (36.06%) Software Engineering
5 262 (21.04%) Containerisation
6 250 (20.08%) AI
7 243 (19.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 230 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
9 229 (18.39%) Mentoring
10 201 (16.14%) Event-Driven
11 198 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 194 (15.58%) TDD
13 190 (15.26%) SDLC
14 170 (13.65%) Roadmaps
14 170 (13.65%) Test Automation
15 148 (11.89%) Fintech
16 144 (11.57%) Computer Science
16 144 (11.57%) Scrum
17 141 (11.33%) Architectural Patterns
18 138 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 467 (37.51%) Java
2 337 (27.07%) C#
3 304 (24.42%) Python
4 299 (24.02%) SQL
5 253 (20.32%) JavaScript
6 181 (14.54%) TypeScript
7 66 (5.30%) Go
8 49 (3.94%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.85%) PHP
11 21 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.69%) Scala
12 19 (1.53%) Rust
13 16 (1.29%) C++
13 16 (1.29%) PowerShell
14 14 (1.12%) C
15 13 (1.04%) Ruby
16 9 (0.72%) Bash
17 8 (0.64%) Bicep
18 6 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 176 (14.14%) Degree
2 108 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.42%) Master's Degree
7 39 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.64%) PMP
13 7 (0.56%) CISM
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
14 5 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.15%) QA
2 32 (2.57%) GDPR
3 23 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.88%) NIST
5 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (0.88%) SLA
6 9 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.64%) IFRS
7 8 (0.64%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.56%) EMIR
9 6 (0.48%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.40%) SEPA
11 4 (0.32%) NCSC
12 3 (0.24%) WCAG
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 388 (31.16%) Docker
2 14 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.16%) vSphere
7 1 (0.080%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 413 (33.17%) Kubernetes
2 174 (13.98%) Terraform
3 58 (4.66%) Grafana
4 40 (3.21%) Ansible
5 33 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.49%) Kibana
7 17 (1.37%) Argo
8 16 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.64%) Mesos
10 5 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) Istio
12 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.080%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.30%) Oracle
3 34 (2.73%) Guidewire
4 30 (2.41%) Splunk
5 29 (2.33%) Google
6 26 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.85%) SAP
9 20 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
10 19 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.04%) VMware
13 11 (0.88%) Black Duck
13 11 (0.88%) UiPath
14 10 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (0.80%) Duck Creek
14 10 (0.80%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.80%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow